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May 20, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Gig Review: Dr. Jane Goodall (May 19, Wgtn)

Jane Goodall: Rewind The Future MFC Sunday, May 19  It was such a thrill to see and hear Dr Jane Goodall speak. The 85-year-old living legend of science, a primatologist, conservationist, activist, mentor who, Sir David Attenborough aside, is truly without peer, has been in our lives as a voice of compassion and knowledge. Through multiple […]

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August 30, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Oliver Sacks

The London-born, American-based author and neurologist Oliver Sacks has died, aged 82. It was known that Sacks had cancer, a melanoma in his eye had spread to his liver. Earlier this year Sacks wrote about how it was a matter of “months” – and in what was presumably a race against the clock he earlier […]